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CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING COLDFUSION 9

Using the ColdFusion Administrator

Last updated 2/21/2012

Enable/Disable logging

In ColdFusion 9.0.1, a new icon has been added in the Actions column of the Log Files page. This icon lets you

stop/start logging for a particular log type.

Log files introduced in ColdFusion 9.0.1

You can generate log files for the following services in ColdFusion 9.0.1:

• http

• ftp

• web service

• Portlet

• Derby

• Feed

Scheduled Tasks page

Use the Scheduled Tasks page to schedule the execution of local and remote web pages, to generate static HTML pages,

send mail with the

cfmail tag, update database tables, index Verity collections, delete temporary files, and any other

batch-style processing. The scheduling facility is useful for applications that do not require user interactions or

customized output. ColdFusion developers use this facility to schedule daily sales reports, corporate directories,

statistical reports, and so on.

Information that is read more often than written is a good candidate for scheduled tasks. Instead of executing a query

to a database every time the page is requested, ColdFusion renders the static page with information that the scheduled

event generates. Response time is faster because no database transaction takes place.

You can run scheduled tasks once; on a specified date; or at a specified time, daily, weekly, or monthly; daily; at a

specified interval; or between specified dates.

The Scheduled Task page lets you create, edit, pause, resume, and delete scheduled tasks. For more information, see

the Online Help.

Scheduling enhancement in ColdFusion 9.0.1

This release supports automatic logging of scheduled tasks.

server.log Records errors for ColdFusion.

customtag.log Records errors generated in custom tag processing.

car.log Records errors associated with site archive and restore operations.

mail.log Records errors generated by an SMTP mail server.

mailsent.log Records messages that ColdFusion sends.

flash.log

Records entries for Flash® Remoting.

Log file Description